I saw this Documentary"Gladiator Days" a few months back about this story below just wondering if anybody has heard if Troy Kell has been executed to date he wanted to die by firing squad so the legal obstacles have kept him alive for a few years now..
Troy Kell is an inmate on death row from
Nevada who, on July 6, 1994 killed a black inmate, Lonnie Blackmon, at the Utah Corrections Department's
Gunnison facility.
Kell was originally imprisoned for the murder of 21-year old James Cotton Kelly (a Canadian caucasian involved in the Las Vegas sex industry). In 1986, Kell then, 18, and two accomplices lured Kelly to the Las Vegas desert and shot him to death for sexually harassing/abusing an underage teenage friend. Once in prison, Kell became a
white supremacist leader. Prior to the attack on Blackmon, Kell had been involved in race-related altercations with several black inmates, including Blackmon. The murder was captured on the prison security closed-circuit TV camera in which Blackmon is stabbed over 70 times. A HBO Documentary titled "Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder" was made in 2002 of the Troy Kell/Lonnie Blackmon case/murder and is still available for purchase as of 2007. The movie shows footage of the actual murder from the prison security camera.
Kell was put on
death row for his crime.